In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and
practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and …

Highlights•A decolonial design approach responding to challenges of decolonial design
practices.•The concept of safe space provides a new way of working in a contested …

Designing among Indigenous and non-Indigenous people is turbulent because we are all
working within differing legacies of colonialism and entrenched systems of “othering.” When …

Design Struggles critically assesses the ways in which the design field is involved in
creating, perpetuating, promoting and reinforcing injustice and inequality in social, political …

Decolonizing design through the perspectives of cosmological others: Arguing for an
ontological turn in design research and prac Page 1 16 feature XRDS • WINTER 2019 • VOL.26 …

Through practices of collaborative imagination and making, or" doing design otherwise,”
design experiments can contribute to keeping local democracies vibrant. In this counterpoint …

This paper examines the seeming repositioning of design as a central domain of thought
and action concerned with the meaning and production of socionatural life. It suggests that …

Abstract Design is regarded in the article as an ontological instrument that is able to
transform the social and cultural reality, and model human experience, subjectivity and …

Abstract 'understanding the user'has become a mantra to corporate strategists—its late-
arriving ubiquity only rivaled by its surprising obviousness. To facilitate this approach there …

The following text proposes a narrative and argumentative path starting in the wetlands of
the Caribbean coastal region of Colombia, where Orlando Fals Borda, more than 50 years …